Mood Elevator is the fourth album by The Gold Needles who are based in Kingston Upon Hull and feature Simon Dowson, Dave Burbage, Mark English (Not the legendary make-up artist) and Carl Slaughter.
The album opens with I Don't Know About That a power pop anthem questioning if the relationship is falling apart or not and if he wants that to happen or not, fizzing guitars allow him to bask in your beauty once more, no matter how conflicted his feeling now are, they don't stop them from sounding relentlessly upbeat.
Eleven Eleven two numbers that have huge meaning for many older people, they don't think of a stuck clock, but of momentous events that happened at the eleventh hour on the eleventh day, so hearing the number used for this love song is a touch jarring, she's gone and that's the time she left you, with the organ solo helping to get you through the day, looking for a new battery for that watch that's stuck at Eleven Eleven.
Pale Blue Silver Eyes that he sees on a Saturday morning while dreaming of sounding like the Byrds if he can, can he ever forget those pale Blue Silver Eyes this sweet love song full of yearning for the hazy summer days of the late 60's.
Keep On Telling Me Why after all that's been said and done, why we are no longer the perfect couple we always dreamed we would be, no reflection on why he might not have measured up, but he wants you to Keep On Telling Him Why you want out, what made you want to move on, other than his obsessive love of the 1960's power pop scene.
Supernature slows things down, sounding like bucolic early 70's neo-folk pop hoping to find the benefits of Supernature all around them, the strings taking them on a grand tour through to halcyon days ahead.
I'll Take My Chances is super catchy power pop with a slight new wave twist that makes clear what he does and doesn't know about you, he makes clear what he's after if you let him take his chances, to make his life like an ABBA song that they could almost be replying too, the guitar solo soars away.
Someone Someday sounds a bit like The Blow Monkeys or Curiosity Killed The Cat early 80's sophisticated pop, slightly wistfully built around the bassline and gentle keyboards allowing him to hope things will get better one day at a time.
Turns To Gold is what he dreams will happen in your life if only you give him that chance he's after, you'll be at movie premieres with the paparazzi chasing you and other adventures if you’ll be his on this indie college rocker.
Crescent Moon threatens to be a widescreen 70's epic rock anthem, guitars on the edge of going full on Snowy White reaching for the stratosphere, they keep just the right side of the precipice chasing that crescent moon high in the sky.
The album closes with the title track Mood Elevator mirroring the rise and falls of your Mood Elevator while you are falling in and out of love, trying to work out what 70's prog pop song this reminds me of, could be by Poco or Barclay James Harvest either way the guitars will carry us off into the sunset with The Gold Needles thankfully not hanging out of our arms.
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